So – quite a week. Hopefully can get BACK into the DAC routine, and also starting a new exercise one. Spring is here, and the dark months are behind us for now (in terms of both actual sunlight and some of Tamiko’s professional drama that seems to finally be wrapping up).

There is also darkness ahead here in Tacoma though… Roger Waters will be bringing ‘The Wall’ here this fall, so I went and dug out a few Pink Floyd discs for tonight. And being a teenager from Roseville in the 90s, I certainly remember hearing LOTS of Pink Floyd. Whole album sides on 93 Rock, my friend Josh singing out ‘Mother do you think they’re going…. to break… my balls???’, laser shows at the Crest and I could keep going. But – I think my biggest Pink Floyd memory / association comes through Tamiko. And not because Tamiko was the biggest Pink Floyd fan… her boyfriend Matt (who she dated before me) was. Matt and I had our lockers next to each other. Both the same year at Roseville High, and met during band camp the week before school started. He started dating Tamiko a few weeks into our freshman year, and I started dating a good friend of his around the same time. Matt was HEAVILY into Pink Floyd. Matt and Tamiko broke up during a band trip at the end of our freshman year, my breakup a few weeks after that, and it was Tamiko and I that were there for each other. Though I haven’t talked to Matt for a long time, we actually remained friends through high school (as did he and Tamiko to an extent).

So – 20 years after all this, almost half of that working in a record store where some form of Pink Floyd would come up every few weeks, what do I think about when I hear Pink Floyd? I still think about Matt. The laser shows, ‘Meddle’ blasting in the back room of Tower and classic album sides are certainly there, but they have faded with time as well… but I still think about this 14 year old kid who’s locker was next to mine, and who’s girlfriend I started dating (and eventually married) a few weeks after they broke up.